As first timers in Penang we’ve been welcomed by crowded streets full of noisy tourists, extremely high prices (or so we felt back then), hideously ugly and dirty beach of Batu Ferringi and in general – nothing you can call

When we were leaving Taiping, Lukasz, the Polish chef in Malay restaurant who’ve we met through CS told us as goodbye “don’t expect Penang food to be the best, the best food in Malaysia is in here, Taiping”. So we